Goldberg in Benguet to promote disaster risk reduction activities

From InterAksyon (Jul 25): Goldberg in Benguet to promote disaster risk reduction activities

Benguet - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip S. Goldberg visited Benguet Province from July 24 to July 25 to lead activities aimed at further advancing disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation measures in the region.

Benguet is one of the most vulnerable provinces to climate change in the Philippines. The province is highly exposed to typhoons, landslides, soil erosion, and drought.

U.S. Embassy Manila's United States Agency for International Development (USAID) partnered with the World Food Programme (WFP) to implement a disaster risk reduction and response/climate change adaptation program that aims to increase risk reduction initiatives in nine provincial governments, 23 municipal governments and eight cities outside Metro Manila by strengthening their capacity for climate change adaptation.

The program is also working with seven academic institutions to introduce locally available and innovative solutions to address disaster risks, and nine non-government organizations to do community-based disaster risk reduction interventions.

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